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Prokofiev @ White Nights
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In the first three months of the 227-th season, we
presented St Petersburg audiences with one
of our major projects of the season — a thematic subscription dedicated to
the works of Sergei Prokofiev, full-scale opera
and ballet performances on stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. We are confident to say that there is no
other musical theater in the world that has reached
such a completeness and depth
in the development of the creative
legacy of Prokofiev, as did
the Mariinsky Theatre. During October-December 2009,
we have represented the best
achievements of our opera and ballet troupes in a series of Prokofiev’s
works for the large stage giving our own reading and understanding of his style
through productions of various years, many of whom
are very own performances
of the Mariinsky Theatre, making us the true “Home of Prokofiev”.
Our major project of the season is reflected
in the Stars of the White Nights Festival
this year as for several
consecutive nights we will be presenting two operas and
two ballets at the Mariinsky Theatre. We selected those performances that
reflect a fundamentally different styles of stage directors and choreographers: from Leonid Lavrovsky, who
created a unique and irreplaceable
to date for seven decades on stage
of our theatre dance drama
of Romeo and Juliet
to Alexei Ratmansky, who set a good and sincere story
of Cinderella, Prince, Love and basic values of Life in the ballet Cinderella,
from David Freeman, whose revolutionary production of The Fiery Angel marked
the beginning of a new era in the development of
Prokofiev’s theater
at the Mariinsky Theatre
to Temur Chkheidze, whose
delicate filigree and a perfect
understanding of important lines
of Dostoevsky’s novel created a lively
and emotional The Gambler,
an opera that came out on stage of our theatre in
various stage versions of the same director. Outstanding artists of opera,
ballet and orchestra of our theatre, under the leadership of Valery Gergiev,
with an ideal, almost intuitive understanding of
Prokofiev’s music, will be once again
starring in the masterpieces of one
of the greatest classics
of the 20-th century at the Stars of White Nights Festival.
We are proud that St Petersburg, a city that brought
Prokofiev professional musical education, and strengthened his talent, can rightly be considered the
most Prokofiev’s music center in the world.
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Opera, Mariinsky Theatre
Prokofiev The Gambler
Opera in four acts
Stage Director Temur Chkheidze (2007)
Pauline: Tatiana Pavlovskaya
Alexei: Vladimir Galuzin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Thursday 17 June, 6:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
Monday 21 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
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Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Ballet in three acts
Choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky (1940)
Juliet: Alina Somova
Romeo: Andrian Fadeyev
Friday 18 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: Sold out, watch for our web-site updates
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Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre
Prokofiev Cinderella
Ballet in three acts
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky (2002)
Cinderella: Irina Golub
Prince: Igor Kolb
Saturday 19 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1500…4300 rub.
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Opera, Mariinsky Theatre
Prokofiev The Fiery Angel
Opera in five acts
Stage Director: David Freeman (1991)
Renata: Larisa Gogolevskaya
Ruprecht: Nikolai Putilin
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Sunday 20 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
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German classics — piano recital, season premiere, opera evening
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Boosting “festival degrees” of Stars of the White Nights, we present a series
of disparate events united
by a common line of German
classical masterpieces of different eras.
Saturday 12 June at the Mariinsky
Concert Hall sees the pianist
Alexander Romanovsky, who performes
Beethoven’s 33 variations on a theme from a waltz by Diabelli. In
this work the composer not only explores the variation
possibilities of the play, but actually talks to himself. Like many other late
works of Beethoven, 33 variations were
at first not understood
by contemporaries of the master and never performed in the composer’s life, but
today they are a real encyclopedia of piano skills for the musician. Outstanding
young pianist Alexander Romanovsky, who enchants
audiences with “truly extra-sensory
emotionality and the sensitive generosity
of his interpretation,”,
really looks forward to performing this
unique Beethoven’s work in St Petersburg (read
an interview
with Alexander on our web-site).
Sunday 13 June at the Mariinsky Theatre sees the performance of Richard Strauss’ opera
The woman without a shadow, which was the first opera premiere this season
(in November 2009). The rich orchestral colours, lush and bright music of
Strauss contains the best symphonic and vocal lines
the composer had written, explicitly
introducing his recognisable style in tune with the spirit of the times in
which this great German classic lived and worked. The production, staged by British
director Jonathan Kent (who had earlier staged in our theater the other
Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra), was successfully shown in February on a tour
within the framework of the project Premieres of the Mariinsky Theatre in Moscow at the National
Theatre Festival Golden Mask and will be taken
by our theatre in August on tour to Ljubljana. Valery Gergiev conducts.
Monday 14 June
at the Mariinsky Concert Hall
sees a concert that will include fragments
of works
by Carl Maria von Weber
and, in particular, highlights of his early opera (The Silent) Forest Maiden. This “romantic” comic
opera was the second theatrical work of the composer-prodigy. It had been
thought that the whole of the score had survived just a couple of passages,
and many European researchers have accepted the loss, remembering that the
teenager Weber himself burned his children’s writings. And yet, handwritten
copy of the score and orchestral voices of The Forest Maiden were found! They were
discovered in the library of our theatre, where they
were brought by librettist and theater director in Freiberg (Saxony town where this
opera received its premiere),
who personally sang the role
of Prince Siegmund. The performance
of the fragments of this Weber’s opera and his other
works by our opera singers
and the orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev, will become the
first recourse to the score that
was thought lost, and therefore
this concert has a great artistic value
and simply a chance to enjoy
this beautiful music
of the “ever young” German classic.
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Beethoven 33 variations on a theme from a waltz by Diabelli
Soloist: Alexander Romanovsky (piano)
Saturday 12 June, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Opera, Mariinsky Theatre
Richard Strauss The Woman without a Shadow
Opera in three acts
Stage Director: Jonathan Kent
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Sunday 13 June, 6:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 960…3200 rub.
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Weber The Silent Forest Maiden, opera highlights
Weber Symphony music pieces
Mariinsky Opera Soloists
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Monday 14 June, 8:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 800…2000 rub.
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Enter our prize draw
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We should like to congratulate those 51 of our e-newsletter subscribers (of
overall 86 who submitted to us their answers), who answered correctly all five
questions to
the e-quiz
we ran last week (1 — c,
2 — to remove c and e,
3 — a, 4 — b,
5 — d).
We are delighted to award prizes to the following three prize-winners selected
randomly out of 51 subscribers who sent us correct
answers to all five questions in the e-quiz:
Tatyana Butmanova (awarded a music CD of LSO Live recording of the opera
conducted by Valery Gergiev, with the participation
of Elena Zhidkova and Sir Willard White),
Anatoliy Kokhan (awarded an illustrated opera booklet to the production
of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle personally signed by the first night
performers Elena Zhidkova and Sir Willard White),
Anastassia Makhmudova (awarded a pair of tickets to either of the premiere
performances of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
on 11, 14 or 25 June (date as per winner's choice, all
performances start at 6:00PM) and an opera program for the date).
We sent them separate e-mails describing of how
they can receive their awards.
You are welcome to take part in our
next e-quiz. Send us your answers to
the questions listed below by the end of Sunday 13
June and if you answer all five questions
correctly, your
name will be put into our prize draw. To enter the
prize draw you need to send us your correct answers
either by e-mail to marketing@mariinsky.ru,
or by twitting a direct personal message to either of
our twitter-accounts mariinskyen
or mariinskyru
(please quote your name and e-mail address so that
we can contact you).
Questions of our fourth e-quiz are related to the
upcoming concert performance of highlights from
Weber’s The Silent Forest Maiden.
Three winners will be
selected randomly by a computer program from a list of
those who correctly answer all five questions of the e-quiz and send us
the answers by the end of Sunday 13 June. Winners and prizes will be announced in our next
e-newsletter. Best of luck!
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Question 1
How old was Weber when he composed his opera The Silent Forest Maiden?
(a) 9 years
(b) 13 years
(c) 14 years
(d) 16 years
(e) 17 years
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Question 2
Name a great composer who was a relative to Weber (albeit a distant one)?
(a) Bach
(b) Mozart
(c) Haydn
(d) Salieri
(e) Beethoven
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Question 3
Name a great composer that had the same master as Weber.
(a) Beethoven
(b) Meyerbeer
(c) Mendelssohn
(d) Schumann
(e) Schubert
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Question 4
Name Weber’s opera
where the composer used the same music material and key story lines as in The Silent Forest Maiden.
(a) Silvana
(b) Ondine
(c) Abu Hassan
(d) Der Freischütz
(e) Faust
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Question 5
When had The Silent Forest Maiden
received its St Petersburg premiere?
(a) In 1809
(b) In 1801
(c) In 1811
(d) In 1804
(e) In 1806
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